Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Yesterday Theo Bertram, a former advisor to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, posted a tweet thread (starts here, ends here) on his work as part of Labour's research team during the 2005 general election...
So, today a man detonated a bomb in New York, at the Port Authority bus terminal. The man, a 27-year-old from Bangladesh who lives in Brooklyn and was a cab driver before his licence...
Last weekend I had a brief exchange with three women on Twitter, two Muslim and one Jewish, after one of the two Muslims retweeted a conversation about Jews versus Blacks and why the first...
I've long been suspicious of the motives and loyalty of "Tell MAMA", the project set up to monitor and report on hate crimes against Muslims. It's not that it's a bad thing for there...
I've had an 'Islamophobia' category on this blog for as long as I can remember (my first post in it was about Oriana Fallaci in September 2006). Much of my work in writing it...
In the past week the 'issue' of primary school age Muslim girls wearing hijab to school has been on the front pages of some newspapers as the chief inspector of schools announced that her...
The Sunday Times reported today (gleefully as you might expect) that Alexandra Spelman, the head of Ofsted, the British schools inspectorate, had announced a plan for her inspectors to ask primary school-age girls who...
A few years ago you may have noticed lots of people adding "Pleb" to their name on their social media accounts. This followed the Tory chief whip being accused of calling a police officer...
Molly Burke, a blind YouTube vlogger, posted a video of her speech last month at the London (Ontario) Music Hall as part of an evening on "Belonging" organised by the Walrus, a Canadian magazine...
Last week a woman in the UK went on trial for murder after pouring sulphuric acid on a partner (Mark van Dongen, right) who had broken up with her. The unusual thing about this...
Just now I saw a video of a YouTube personality who now works for the BBC, Lucy Edwards, talk about how her new flat in London that she shares with her boyfriend and guide...
What will women gain from squawking about sex pests? Niqab | Daily Mail Online This piece appeared in today's Daily Mail and has been widely derided by both Muslims and feminists on Twitter, and...
It's long been a cliché that Prince William represents a "new generation" of British royalty who are unencumbered by the prejudices and stifling customs of their grandparents in particular — the ones who got...
400 years on from Guy Fawkes, Britain’s Catholics still face prejudice | Catherine Pepinster, the Guardian Currently on the BBC there's a serial about the Gunpowder Plot, in which a group of Catholics in...
Last week a man who had been studying for a social work degree at Sheffield University lost his appeal against the university's decision to expel him for remarks he made on Facebook in a...
Yesterday someone I'd never heard of, but apparently gets TV show appearances in the US, posted a tweet containing a ridiculously irrelevant observation about the current situation in Catalonia, the province of Spain whose...
Last Sunday there was a Nick Cohen article in the Observer about Russian influence and how, for example, Russian "dark money" is suspected of funding the Leave campaign now that it appears Arron Banks...
So, Heathrow expansion is in the news again, with another round of consultations being by the government this week and a report, the Airports National Policy Statement, being released which, according to the Daily...
Recently I've noticed a trend among Muslims in the online community of associating Muslims and Islam with 'brown-ness' and in opposition to 'whiteness' as well as the uncritical parroting of dogmas which are in...
Unrest is a film about ME, made by Jennifer Brea (right) and which tells the story of her life with the condition since it forced her to cut short her degree. It also tells...